The changes to 248 CMR 3.00 have been completed and posted
to the web pages of the Board of State Examiners of Plumbers
and Gas Fitters.Here is the link to the posting:click here

These regulation changes, pertaining to the “General
Provisions Governing the Conduct of Plumbing and Gas Work
Performed in the Commonwealth,” will be discussed during the
next round of continuing education classes for inspectors.

"What the world's poorest one billion need more than doctors, good roads, the
Internet and even electricity, is quality drinking water and safe sewage disposal.
Society is nothing without good plumbing."
~Author unknown~

"There is no question that our health has improved spectacularly in the past
century. One thing seems certain: it did not happen because of medicine, or
medical science, or even the presence of doctors.

"Much of the credit should go to the plumbers and engineers of the western
world.

The contamination of drinking water by human feces was at one time the greatest
cause of human disease and death for us...(but) when the plumbers and sanitary
engineers had done their work in the construction of our cities, these diseases
began to vanish. "
~~Author Lewis Thomas (medical researcher and essayist)